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14. Set my people free

 

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. They demanded: Let our people go free! God wishes it. But Pharaoh had no intention of setting the Israelites free. He said: Who is the God of Israel that I should listen to him? I do not know him and I will not let the Israelites go. I will have them do even more work so that they do not forget who is their master. The same day he ordered the slave-drivers: Make the Israelites work so hard that they forget this idle talk.

 

    The Israelites groaned under their burden. Moses implored the Lord, and God promised him: I am God and I will lead you out of Egypt. I will adopt you as my own people. You will recognise that I am your God. I will bring you to the land I promised  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I will give it to you as your inheritance.

 

    God let the Pharaoh feel his might. Terrible plagues contaminated the drinking water and killed cattle. Insects infested the houses. The air became so dirt-ridden that all the Egyptians broke out in sores and boils. The Pharaoh was quite aware of the source of this misfortune. Twice, three times he pretended he would free the Israelites from their slavery, but as soon as the plagues were over he broke his word.

 

(Ex 5 – 11)

 

 

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